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Example sentences for "great favour"

  • To-morrow I am coming over to the General Hospital, and if you will be kind enough to order some to be saved for me, that I may taste it when I come, I shall esteem it a great favour.

  • I shall esteem it a great favour, general, if you will allow me to place my new field-stoves in your brigade, instead of on the esplanade.

  • I came to ask Miss Ellen if she could do me a great favour?

  • The young ones were permitted to have coffee to-night as a great favour.

  • I don't want to see anybody that thinks she's going to do me a great favour by coming.

  • I should take it as a great favour to myself.

  • I humbly acknowledge your Majesty's great favour in affording a despatch to my business.

  • I humbly thank your Majesty for your great favour to your servant, who hath a wife and children enough to people a province in Pomerland, and I shall bring them all thither to do your Majesty service.

  • You and Mrs. Bentley will be doing me a great favour by remaining.

  • Indeed, she will do me a great favour by remaining.

  • You will be doing me a great favour by remaining.

  • Uncle," said Lily, creeping close up against his chair, "I want to ask you a great favour.

  • There is a favour, a great favour, and great generosity," Mrs Dale had replied.

  • Lady Alexandrina," said he, "I would beg from you a great favour.

  • I do not know what I write, but it would be a great favour of you never to mention the subject again.

  • He loaded him with proofs of his kindness, and invited him to join in all the excursions to Marly, a decided mark of great favour.

  • Usg, who is since dead, was in great favour with my son, but that did not last long.

  • This practice began in the days of Marie de Medicis, when a chancellor's wife happened to be in great favour.

  • Goettingen, as a great favour, and through the interest of an influential professor there, he was allowed to see a book that had belonged to Faust, or Faustus, as we call him.

  • You would be conferring a great favour," I said; "from what I have heard of the circumstance, I am already much interested.

  • For the last three days I found myself more than once alone with her; but I was studiously moderate, and she caressed me in a manner that would have made my bliss if I had not already obtained the one great favour.

  • A straw bed, a couple of blankets, and sometimes, as a great favour, a thin mattress and two coarse sheets.

  • The only thing which I dare to ask from you as a great favour is to burn my first letter, and never to mention it again.

  • I came to ask Miss Ellen if she could do me a great favour; there's a strange gentleman come, and nobody has seen him yet, and it don't seem right.

  • I have asked you to give me a few minutes here, because I want you to grant me a great favour.

  • It cannot be less than my life he wants; he could think of nothing else as a great favour.

  • Well, Osborne, I will tell you all I think you would care to hear, and then I will ask you to do me a great favour.

  • Be not uneasy on that account; and, mother, as a great favour, let us talk no more of my affairs for the present.

  • Neither Miss Penge nor either of the two Miss Godolphins had entertained personal hopes in regard to Lord Rufford, but nevertheless they took badly the great favour shown to Arabella.

  • That evening Larry Twentyman came in, but was not received with any great favour by Mrs. Masters.

  • The Connop Greens and the Smijths would no longer have her, unless it might be on short and special occasions, as a great favour.

  • Le Gros," said she, "I want you to do me a great favour, but I have hardly the impudence to ask it.

  • It certainly was the case that Peter was of great use to them, and that Mr. Jones had rebuked him more than once as having made a great favour of his services.

  • It's a great favour as has been done you.

  • I accepted this as a sign of great favour, which, in this court, I know to be a great one.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "great favour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    faulty conformation; great abundance; great boon; great consequence; great danger; great delight; great development; great duke; great effect; great festival; great glee; great haste; great improvement; great liking; great literary; great mystery; great quantity; great shout; great state; great that; great train; great veneration; great woman; greatest happiness; greatly fear; neutral rights